Learning to Scream:
A Horror Studies Screen Pedagogy Symposium
Friday 6 January 2023 /Online
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Organised by the BAFTSS Horror Studies SIG Convenors:
Dr Kate Egan (Northumbria University) Dr Shellie McMurdo (University of Hertfordshire) Dr Laura Mee (University of Hertfordshire) |
VideosIntroduction and Panel One: Running a horror module: Experiences, questions and approaches
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Since its inception in 2020, the BAFTSS Horror Studies SIG has organised horror studies events, promoted horror research across screen subjects, provided new spaces for horror research with an affiliated book series, and developed an ever-growing network of screen horror researchers at all levels, both in the UK and internationally. As part of our SIG aims, we also promised to facilitate discussions about horror studies pedagogy at higher education level.
Horror has long been a popular subject for both undergraduate and postgraduate study, with specialist modules running at many institutions and horror being a growing area of interest for doctoral research. The established significance of horror studies renders the area ideal as an example for teaching screen theory, history and practice. Horror’s broad narrative and thematic range lends itself to cultural studies and historical/contextual analysis, while its cogent genre status and textual experimentation means horror is perfect for teaching film form and screen practice. The enduring popularity of the genre also provides a useful model for understanding screen industries and audiences, and their shifting relations. The many creative, exciting, provocative and significant examples of horror films, television programmes, web series, video games and other screen media provide a wide range of engaging case studies for teaching, learning and research. This symposium brought together scholars at various levels to explore a broad range of questions around learning with and from horror in the contemporary HE landscape. A forthcoming special issue proposal for Open Screens is in development. Schedule and ProgrammeDownload below (includes abstracts):
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Panel Two: Dark Whispers Vol. 1: Australia's first all female horror anthology feature
Panel Three: Terror Tools: Screen Horror case studies in HE teaching
Panel Four: Expanding Pedagogic Practice: New Methods and Approaches
Panel Five: Horror Stands for Comfort: Rethinking Content Warnings in the Classroom
Panel Six: Rethinking Pedagogic Practice in the Contemporary Cultural Moment
Panel Seven: Transnational Approaches to Teaching Screen Horror and Closing Comments
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